Legal Opinion
Salaam v. Lockhart
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1988No. 87-1079PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, two Muslim inmates who legally changed their names after being committed to the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC), appeal the dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging that the ADC’s “committed name policy” violates their rights to the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment. We vacate the judgment of the trial court and remand.
Appellants entered the Tucker Maximum Security Unit of the ADC under the names Kevin Robinson and Willie Blevins. They later underwent a conversion to the Muslim religion and changed their legal names to…
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